Photos and videos on social media showed an otter climbing onto a surfboard with a surfer already on it near Victoria, B.C.

European green crabs are small, measuring just four inches across. But since they were first introduced in the 1980s, these ...

While there are other animals that eat green crabs, their population only fell in an area of Central California when the ...

Researchers believe otters could be a potential solution for controlling an invasive green crab species that's invaded ecosystems up and down the West Coast.

Visitors to Whiffin Spit in Sooke are being urged by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to keep their distance from an overly curious sea otter. In recent weeks the marine mammal has been seen trying ...

Instead of catching waves, a Sooke surfer caught the attention of a “frisky” sea otter who decided to try its paw at the ...

MONTEREY, California (KGO) — When we first met the hungry otters of Elkhorn Slough last year, they were chowing down on a species of burrowing crabs blamed for destabilizing the shoreline.

A sea otter has been seen clambering onto a surfboard and following surfers off Vancouver Island, prompting reminders from Fisheries and Oceans Canada to avoid close interactions with the mammals.

At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, located roughly 20 miles north of Monterey, the first male southern sea otter showed up in the late 1990s. And, starting in the early ...